HA HA HA NOT FUNNY.

Only, it is. I feel like with all that’s going on, I’m becoming a bit like a self-absorbed teacher providing comic relief, but whatever — it’s Spring Quarter, I’m exhausted and everything seems awful, so comic relief it is. That said, when I finish teaching students how Scott McCloud thinks word-picture relations and panel-transitions work, I challenge them to a competition to see who can most hilariously re-imagine these five text-less panels from Making Comics:

For the first time in all the quarters I’ve taught, there was a clear and unambiguous winner:

Feel free to take a break from the awfulness of it all and see if you can top it.

Not particularly funny, but it does at least mess with your expectations a bit.

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That student’s got balls of steel, too. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of a professor I know who would take that laughing. Maybe one or two. Still, it takes balls to hand that in.

SEK

She sent emails asking, first, if she could use profanity, and second, whether “meta” was an acceptable option for this assignment. I said yes on both counts, so you could say I got what I deserved.

danbu sama

See on reading, I thought it was preeeeeeetty goood, but knoowing this, it’s FANTASTIC

hv

I would turn them in textless.

SEK

I had a student try that once: identified all panels as picture-specific, but then claimed that the transitions between the panels were scene-to-scene of Israelites-wandering-the-desert duration, which is why the woman cherishes the ice scream so much in that final panel.

Halloween Jack

All thought balloons/captions:

1 – Have I found the solution to everything? Hunger, climate change, war, you name it?